Summer is roadtrip season, and just like for readathon, audiobooks are the perfect companion. In fact several readathon-ers are participating in this weekend’s ‘thon almost entirely in the car. I love a good roadtrip and whether you’re doing it solo or with one person or a whole carload, the opportunities for some good bookish shenanigans are multitude. Which books will you listen to? Which bookstores or literary sights will you see? How many fights over which Hogwarts house is better will you have?
So for our next challenge, in the comments, tell me either: 1) which three audiobooks you’d recommend for a roadtrip and why, OR 2) if you could take a roadtrip to any three bookish locations, what would they be? And because, books are magic, your destinations don’t obviously have to make sense within the confines of space and time. Want to roadtrip with Jamie to Lallybroch (from Outlander), the city of Sky (from The Inheritance Trilogy), and Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types (from Lumberjanes)? Go for it.
We’ll be announcing winners for this challenge at Hour 18 in six hours. And now for the winners of the Hour Six Shelfie challenge:
Jennifer S. (@robothugs on Litsy)
Ilse Matus (@matusilse on Twitter)
Kavita R. (@kavitathereader on Instagram)
Jenna Morrison Campbell (@sheridan4369 on Twitter)
Steph Auteri (@stephauteri on Twitter)
Sarah VInka (@sarahbussing on Instagram)
Gemma (@bookworm54 on Litsy)
Casey Rose (@caseyrosereads on Instagram)
Laura Brauman (@lauralovebooks1 on Litsy)
Katie H. (@skateanddonate on Twitter)
Winners, go hit up the prize page now! See you fine readers back here in three hours for more prizes.
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My audiobooks recommendations on my twitter page:
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Favorite roadtrip audiobooks:
1) The Devil in the White City
2) The Peach Keeper
3) Shrill
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1) I have yet to go on a long road trip but I highly recommend the Outlander audiobooks and the Game of Thrones audiobooks. The narrators were excellent.
2) I’d looove to visit Scotland and the different places talked about in the Outlander series.
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What a difficult question! I’d say, Any of Bill Bryson’s travel books that he reads (he’s hilarious), Kate Morton’s Forgotten Garden (will transport you to another place and time-richly detailed and great sense of place), and maybe the Chronicles of Narnia for a family trip.
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Three places I’d love to roadtrip to are:
1. Hogwarts WITH THE FLYING CAR, of course
2. Camp Half Blood from Percy Jackson
3. Take a Grand Tour around (historical) Europe with Percy, Monty and Felicity from The Gentleman’s Guide.
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Great question!!
1. A tour of Europe with Matthew and Diana from the All Souls Trilogy
2. Scotland with Jaime (Outlander), of course
3. This has to be a tie: either the world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts or Middle Earth.
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Here’s mine!
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The three audiobooks I’d recommend for a road trip are Tamora Pierce’s Beka Cooper trilogy read by Susan Denaker. As an older reader they’re my favorite of Pierce’s series because Beka is an older character starting out than other heroines, and they include action, drama, and romance while being easy to follow. Susan Denaker is also an amazing reader, establishing accents and voices for the characters that make the dialogue-heavy story wonderful to listen to.
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I love all of Terry Pratchett’s audiobooks but the Tiffany Aching series is my favorite. The narrator, Stephen Briggs, is amazing at doing different voices and accents for the characters.
I also highly enjoyed “A Dirty Job” by Christopher Moore for its quirkiness and the voices the narrator did for the characters.
Julia Quinn’s historical romance books are also great to listen too. The characters all have their quirks and imperfections which make them seem more human and realistic than the average romance. They also aren’t so explicit that they make me uncomfortable listening.
I can be found on Litsy at @aerobins13.
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I’d recommend READY PLAYER ONE, AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, and SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS as road trip audio books, all really great!
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Audiobook recommends: American Gods with full voice cast! World war Z with full voice cast! Lincoln in the Bardo with full voice cast!
SarahKat84’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/RmtuajlKeTVH
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I haven’t listened to any audio books yet! I will late August, though!
I would like to go on a Road trip to:
1. Hogwarts
2. The Moon Kingdom (either from the Lunar Chronicles or Sailor Moon)
3. Red London
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Being a huge Outlander fan, any place in Scotland is great-Lallybroch, Castle Leoch, Culloden. https://twitter.com/lrcpt/status/888808584905150464
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Redwritinghood’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/SGdiRDlwN2Za
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Some AWESOME Audiobooks would be – 1) A River Runs Through It, 2) Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel ( A GREAT GREAT LISTEN) , and finally, I am forgetting an audio book about a whale that a lady swims beside – that swam into a Bay, either San Francisco or New York, all are so soothing and relaxing, the are amazing audio books.
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I like to listen to genre fiction or memoirs/biographies. They hold my interest the most. I’ve really been enjoying Stephen King’s It (natrated by Steven Weber – from Wings!). Lindy West’s Shrill and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson are also great! http://litsy.com/p/WjJhQmlEa0Yw
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Boom. My three favorite audiobooks
Callemarie’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/cGJoQXh4Rk9j
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My hubby and I prefer celebrity memoirs on road trips (we can’t agree on much else!) Faves are Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends and Love Life…then always Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, Shockaholic, The Princess Diarist. Tig Notaro’s I’m Just a Person is also amazing!
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1. Who am I to not immediately insist on going to Hogwarts because Hogwarts is home.
2. The Grishaverse where the Shadow and Bone trilogy and Six of Crows duology is set.
3. And lastly Mars from the Martian because I love space and even though its a bit terrifying I can’t say no to space travels.
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My bookish road trip would definitely be: 1) to Prince Edwards Island due to the Anne of Green Gables books 2) Oz (because it is the best place) and 3) then I’d head to Sweden to visit with Pippi Longstocking in Villa Villekula because she is truly living her best life.
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I would recommend Lincoln in the Bardo (full cast), Murder on the Orient Express (read by Dan Stevens – delightful) and Tina Fey’s Bossypants!
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My bookish road trip locations would be Sept-Tours to spend time with the Bishop-Clermonts from the All Souls Trilogy, Ketterdam to get in some trouble with the crew from Six of Crows, and Red London to sail around with Lilah, Kell, Rhy, and Alucard. 🙂
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Three audiobooks for a roadtrip I can recommend is:
1. I see London,I see France by Sarah Mlynowski (listen to it now and love it)
2. Any Harry Potter book 🙂
3. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Twitter @jia_thomsen
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Road tripping with my bookstagram buddies to Goodwills across the Nation!
Touring the US for great bookstores like The Strand in NYC!
Visiting the giant book buildings in Kansas City!
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My three favorite audiobooks for audiobooks are actually the three I keep on my phone, just in case I decide I’m not feeling the book I’m reading!
1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. This book goes back and forth between the pre-apocalypse and post-apocalyptic world and NEEDS to be heard, rather than read. It’s about being performed and oral traditions, it’s almost unjustifiable to read it rather than listen to the audiobook. Get lost in the Midwest and wonder if you’ll survive this apocalypse (I wouldn’t.)
2. The Martian by Andy Weir. As this is almost entirely a transcribed video journal, it makes sense to listen to it! I loved riding around clutching the car wheel while listening to this book.
3. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling. Okay, either Mindy Kaling book can go here, as can a ton of other memoirs. But Mindy’s book is so down to earth and hilarious — it makes you almost feel like you can succeed just as she has. ….while crying from laughing so hard.
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Love this question… I’m a huge audiobook fan. Here are three books I would recommend for a road trip, and why:
1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, because it’s one of my very favorite books, and the audio is fantastic. A long road trip is perfect to escape in a magical, bookish Spanish adventure.
2. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, if you’re on a kid-free trip, because it’s a nonstop, mind-blowing weird trip all on its own.
3. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller because it’s just plain gorgeous.
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My roadtrip audiobooks:
The Martian by Andy Weir – This is so perfect for any roadtrip through a desert, especially near sunrise or sunset. The descriptions of the Martian landscape, as well as the eventful nature of the book make this a great way to keep occupied on long drives.
NPCs by Drew Hayes – This one s about heroes who are just supposed to be background characters going on a quest. Great for a drive!
Rebel of the Sands – Aother adveture, and also to magical lands.
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Audiobooks I would recommend:
1. Argo – While nonfiction, this was paced like a thriller and I couldn’t stop listening, even though I knew the outcome. Even better than the movie.
2. Not My Father’s Son – Heartbreaking tale of Alan Cummings life, and I really respect what he was able to overcome.
3. Born a Crime – Informative and hilarious, I loved Trevor Noah’s reading of it.
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There are a ton of bookish road trips I’d like to take. 1. Maine to see the setting of so many of Stephen King’s books. 2. To England (Tudor England if we can time travel). I live nowhere near a castle or anything remotely as interesting as that, so going there is a life goal. 3. Hogwarts! Who wouldn’t want to road trip through Harry Potter’s universe?!
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Three bookish roadtrip locations??! Well my answers would probably be the same with the others but here you go:
1. Hogwarts (too obvious? 😅)
2. Rivendell from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy because it’s sooo pretty
3. Tokyo in Murakami’s 1Q84 because it has two moons!
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Roadtrips: aaaaah
1) Gotta go to Hogwarts, b/c………….
2) Australia: Ever since I read “Dirt Music” by Tim Winton, it’s the top location on my bucket list
3) A back stage tour at the Library of Congress. My friend is related to a librarian there and got the tour of a lifetime
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Audiobooks… I drove from Anchorage, Alaska to San Antonio, Texas and listened to the entire Gossip Girl series. It’s way more than 3 books… but I highly recommend it because the addictive fluffy drama made the hours fly by!
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Oh definitely listen to Yes,Please by Amy Pohler, The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer and The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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I went for the 3 places I would want to roadtrip too, as I have listened to one audiobook ever…
I went for Kaer Morhen, Silent City, and The Wall ☺️
And I’m on the hour 12 prize list! Thank you so much! I’m so excited 🎉
Bookworm54’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/OHM3b0gwMjhs
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My three roadtrip recs over on Litsy!
http://litsy.com/p/YUVQUW9TVnhx
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A few good books to bring on a road trip:
1. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
This kills two birds in one stone, it contains bookish locations and would be an amazing road trip book. It itself is a road trip thorugh America and it would be truly amazing to follow the destinations along with the book.
2. Any of the Nigh Vale novels
Honestly the nigh Vale podcast is my favorite thing. The script is so eerie and weird and yet so funny. The narrator, Cecil Baldwin, is amazing. Now I don’t know much about audionbooks really but I do belive there is a full cast one for this so would 100% recommend. (Check out the podcast while you’re at it ;)) While you’re on the road, especially if it is in a foreign and unknown places, it’s easy to imagine any bypassing town to be night vale, and for all the mystical and weird things that are happening in the podcast, to be happening right in front of your nose. A good way to get lost and make the car rides fly by in no time.
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Thorugh the Looking Glass…
Or any other fairytale. Just imagine geting lost in the fantastical world of Alice, or maybe travel with the brothers Grimm. My personal Grimm favorite is The Twelve Dancing Princesses, but yeah. A mesmerising fairy tale will make the time fly by and put the entire travel company in a light and almost childish mood, which maybe could result in some childish spontaneous fun? Essential for a road trip with friends in my opinion
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These are definitely not your standard roadtrip audiobook picks, but hear me out!
1. World War Z by Max Brooks, because this is my go-to favorite audiobook whether I’m on the road or not! The star-studded full cast is excellent, and the epistolary format would make it easy to stop and start as you pull off the highway for your 700th bathroom break. Plus, if the zombies start to freak you out, you’re already in a car and prepared to outrun them!
2. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare, because then you (having read it previously in print, of course) can cackle hysterically as your trapped husband groans when certain smoochy sexy scenes in the demon realms come up. Not that I have any experience with that.
3. Any Star Wars audiobook that has a full cast and sound effects, so you can pretend you’re flying the Millennium Falcon. Just don’t let the cops spot you going fast enough to make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.
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Chasing-Pages’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/ZWhkNDVTZmJK
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For any road-trip, I know I am going to need an audiobook or five. I usually go with something narrated by Simon Vance (he has a great voice and he has read several Dickens novels which means one book can last for 20+ hours) or something by P.G. Wodehouse (always good for a laugh.)
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A classic road trip book is Amy and Roger’s Epic detour, so this would be a great audiobook!
On that same note I would love to go to Stanwich, Connecticut-the fictional town that all of Morgan’s characters live in! I would love to hang out with Amy & Roger, Taylor & Henry, Emily & Frank, and Andie & Clark!
The Harry Potter series make incredible audiobooks, which is actually one of the books I’m listening to during this readathon! And who wouldn’t want to go to Hogwarts!
For my third road trip destination, I’ll have to go with the Shadowhunter institutes in London and New York!
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My recommendations are:
– “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” because it is narrated by the fantastic Stephen Fry
– “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman, particularly if you are roadtripping in Great Britain/near London
– “As You Wish” by Cary Elwes for any Princess Bride fans on your roadtrip; his book is still probably my favorite audiobook I’ve ever listened to
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Both great questions with so many possibilities! Places that come to mind for excellent literary road trips are:
1. Narnia (because I had a wardrobe as a kid and actually tried this a few times and it would be so satisfying for this to actually work, all these years later, ha!)
2. Jane Austen-era England (with nearly any Austen leading man, but Mr. Knightley might be the best/most upbeat tour guide? Hard to say)
3. Hogwarts (preferably arriving by Hippogriff, naturally)
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My three bookish locations are:
1) Hogwarts (duhh)
2) Camp Half-Blood or Camp Jupiter or Hotel Valhalla
3) Luna (with the characters from “The Lunar Chronicales”)
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I would love to do a literarly roadtrip through England. I’ve been to a number of the sites already, but I’d want to spend more time and hit up the ones I haven’t seen, including Haworth (Brontë country), Hampshire (Austen country), and Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare country), plus a detour into London for all the wonderful literary locations within the city (because how could I do England and not revisit London?).
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Any book from the Peter Grant Series by Ben Aaronovitch–book 1 is Midnight Riot
Any book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny–book 1 is Still Life
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The reasons are the same for each: Great story read by a superb narrator!
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I left my list on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/ejI3M1BpU1k2
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The three books would be:
1. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery — I’m currently trying to read and re-read more classics and listening to it these days during my commute. The play with words in it and the intelligent yet creatively imaginative talk of Anne is fun to listen to.
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll — the title has ‘wonder’ in it, need I say more.
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell — Though it’s dark but an immensely witty take on power and politics of men. A great piece of satire. And, it’s short too.
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3 audiobooks:
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann because it’s gripping.
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough because it’s surprising.
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson because you need to know this.
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charminggoats’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/bFVQNGFBV253 – Here’s my audiobook list 📚
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Here’s mine!
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